Category Archives: long arm quilting

Personal fan or not, when someone special in the family is a fan you endure and make them a quilt! So the customer made this for a special upcoming birthday.

And special-ordered the football pantograph for me to use for quilting!

Oh, this was the closest I’ve ever had to get by at the end. I changed the way I had it loaded so I could get my quilting to the edge of the quilt. Wowsers! (Just 1 inch to spare before it is quilted to my frame!!) The customer is my friend and had warned me that she made a change in the top plan and it might be close. We had a good smile over this!!

This is a Disappearing Nine-Patch pattern in a very random and scrappy layout. Out of the 441 squares needed to start the quilt, only a few are repeated and used more than once. The way this pattern goes together, the fabrics repeat in some places but only 4 times for 49 fabrics. Otherwise, nearly all the fabrics are different.

Pieced, quilted, binding on, and washed.

Gold variegated King Tut thread by Superior Threads.
With all the squares and rectangles on the piecing, I quilted circles with hooked feathers randomly as I went along the quilt. Then I filled in the other areas with loops and spirals.

One circle has a script L for the customer. I don’t know if she’s found that yet!

Her suggestions were: greens, browns, nature-y, with a splash of red. I used a purchased pattern that I altered for the splash of red and love this so much I have 2 more planned in other colors to sell.

A special label with all the family names.

Close-up of the quilting. I just played with the machine and had leaves, feathers, and vine/swirls for the quilting.

This quilt is for her son’s graduation and he helped with pattern selection, fabrics, and the quilting ideas. They make a great team! While this was waiting for a turn to be quilted, I had it hanging in my studio with all the waiting quilts. It was a joy to walk in my room and see the dramatic color and piecing of this hanging there.

While this was waiting for a turn to be quilted, I had it hanging in my studio with all the waiting quilts. It was a joy to walk in my room and see the dramatic color and piecing of this hanging there.

Together they decided on variegated thread and a stars design in the quilting.